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MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY CHOMIAK PUBLIC RELATIONS One hesitates to write about the current situation in Ukraine, for fear that it may change. At times it is difficult to believe that the society, the system, appear to be chang ing so rapidly for the better. The fact is the changes in Eastern Europe have also affected what is being written about Ukrainians in the United States. We no longer need to explain and defend our ethnicity; every educated individual now knows what and where Ukraine is. More and more persons know more and more about the land of our ancestors — its history, its churches, its folklore, even its tragedies. Some even know about the cur rent political processes, the emergence of popular movements for restructuring the grass-roots organizations, the attempts to implement the democratic system of govern ment that has been generally suppressed in what Taras Shevchenko referred to as “our, yet not our very own, Ukraine.” The increased knowledge about Ukraine evident in scholarship, journalism, and among the general public, necessitates that we our selves know the current situation in the area, and that we have access to resource persons who can provide additional information when it is needed. The basics, while essential, will no longer suffice when dealing with the press. Success in this area breeds increased de mands on us and on the information we can supply. This has been a gratifying time to handle public relations. We began marking the mil- lenium of Christianity in Ukraine, and the centernary of the international women’s or ganization. The latter gave UNWLA a chance to build on work done in previous years. We participated in the planning and celebration of the centenary of the International Council of Women, the oldest of the women’s organi zations. Our delegates took part in the pro ceedings and organized committee sessions and discussions. Branch 78 of Washington, with the help of volunteers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, registered the 700 delegates for the centenary convention. UNWLA also hosted a Saturday night recep tion at the National Press Club in Washing ton, attended by 400 official delegates that included the presidents of the 80 or so coun tries represented at the celebration. The entertainment — a retrospective show of the historical costumes of Ukraine from prehis toric times to the seventeenth century, con summately recreated by Branch 64, — pro vided an opportunity to discuss a bit of Ukraine’s history and culture, including the Millennium. President AAUW Sarah Harden accepting Bohachevsky’s Book, June 1988 The Millennium was celebrated by all our communities, and most branches marked the event with special events. Dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, as well as the realization of the extent of the tragedy of Chornobyl, set the stage for much of our work during these years. We now hear of plans to reestablish the Ukrainian Women’s League (Soiuz Ukrainok) in Kiev and L’viv. God help them. Women in Ukraine need an independent organization that would raise the needs of women. So far, women have been overlooked as they toil under what the founder of the Ukrainian women’s movement, Natalia Kobrynska, identified more than a 54 www.unwla.org
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